Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows 9781631492426, 9781631492419, 163149242X

“How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” —Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of

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Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
9781631492426, 9781631492419, 163149242X

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